Ulez vigilante attack leads to traffic chaos with young girl rushed to hospital

Ulez vigilante attack leads to traffic chaos with young girl rushed to hospital

WATCH NOW: Masked 'thugs' protecting Ulez cameras accused of attacking locals

GB News
Holly Bishop

By Holly Bishop


Published: 19/01/2024

- 07:31

Updated: 19/01/2024

- 08:05

The Metropolitan Police called on those carrying out the attacks to 'stop immediately'

A six-year-old girl has been injured in a car accident and taken to hospital after Ulez vigilantes caused chaos by destroying cameras as well as a set of traffic lights.

The “blade runner” campaigners unleashed a wave of vandalism around south-east London, which led to a car crash in the spot that had been destroyed.


Two vehicles collided due to the interference, causing a young girl and the adult she was travelling to be taken to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police called on those carrying out the attacks to “stop immediately”, after vigilantes took down around ten cameras within a five-mile radius around Orpington, Bromley and Lewisham.

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Ulez vigilante attack leads to traffic chaos with young girl rushed to hospital

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The anti-Ulez campaigners also cut down five sets of traffic lights in the same area.

The crash occurred at the junction of Old Priory Avenue and Court Road in Orpington, south-east London, just before 8.30am on Thursday.

Chief Inspector Prita Shoma said: “Two police units, who should have been available to answer 999 calls, were instead required to spend the morning managing traffic.

“The people who are carrying out this criminal damage are putting the public at risk. This morning, there has been a collision between two cars on Court Road, at the location of one of the damaged traffic lights, in which a child was injured.

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The vigilantes cut down five sets of traffic lights

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“I would urge the people carrying out these crimes to stop immediately.”

A spokesperson for London Fire Brigade said: “Firefighters were called to a fuel spillage following a road traffic collision on the junction of Old Priory Avenue and Court Road in Orpington.

“The Brigade was called at 0848 and the incident was over for firefighters by 0909. One fire engine from Orpington Fire Station attended the scene.”

Sadiq Khan’s controversial clean-air scheme was expanded in August last year to Greater London. Drivers of non-compliant vehicles must now pay £12.50 a day to drive into the city.

Opponents of the clean air scheme have taken matters into their own hands, cutting down cameras in an effort to thwart Transport for London’s (TFL) attempts to catch incompatible vehicles.

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The Metropolitan Police called on those carrying out the attacks to 'stop immediately'

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Khan's controversial scheme was expanded in August 2023

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Since the expansion, cameras which now cover the whole of Greater London were stolen or damaged 1,000 times.

Earlier this week, campaigners fighting Khan's eco tax replaced a Ulez camera with a Christmas tree.

The anti-Ulez vigilantes their attack on a CCTV camera located on Erith Road, near to the Barnehurst Road roundabout in Bexleyheath, south-east London.

The campaigners warned the London mayor: “We won't stop until you stop. That's the bottom line.”

A spokesperson from TFL said in December that they hired "a small number of qualified security staff who are suitably licensed by the Security Industry Authority, due to ongoing criminal damage to Ulez cameras and vehicles".

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